I feel the earth move under my feet...
Whoa! Saturday at 6:01 pm we had an earthquake! (little blue square in Oregon is us)
The conversation at the house went something like this:
Me: What is that?! (as I look out the window for the mysteriously noiseless truck rolling by)
J: I don't know!
A couple seconds later...
J: I think that was an earthquake!
Me: Are we supposed to do anything? Should we check the gas and water pipes?
J: I don't know.
Me: Turn on the tv and see what's going on. I'm going to the basement to check those pipes.
So, KGW, the local station, reports 30 minutes later that we had a 2.1 on the Richter scale, with the epicenter in the West Hills (5 miles north). Fortunately, nothing rattled or fell because I sat there with my mouth open the entire time. In elementary school we did tornado drills but when it comes to earthquakes we mid-westerners sure are ignorant!
So, I found some advice...Household Seismic Activity - no, not what happens when we argue
posted by Jules @ 11:41 AM
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So, we didn't even feel it in our neck of Portland. But, when I was a kid, I lived in CA, and I was in the fifth grade when we had a huge earthquake -- The one with the epicenter in Santa Cruz. I lived about 30 minutes from the epicenter, and I still remember how huge it felt. I think it was about a 6 on the rictor scale. Anyway, now I'll get to the reason for this comment...we did as we were told in the drills: got in the "duck and cover" position under our desks. I hear the drills were the same way back during the war. Were the drills the same for tornadoes, too?
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